Gophers 2025 Schedule Announced - how many wins do you predict?

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With the Gophers having a bye before going to Oregon, and the Wrigley game the next week, how about a Friday Big Ten after dark game in Eugene?
 



Somewhere between 7-9 likely again. 6 if things go wrong and 10 tops if things go extremely well.
 

Wisconsin next year plays Alabama, Iowa, Oregon, Michigan and Ohio St in a 6 game stretch (also plays Maryland).
 



The home schedule seems a bit boring. Wisconsin, yep, Nebraska, ok, the remainder are low quality opponents. I'm sure the reduced ticket prices will reflect this reality.
 





Can we talk about the Badger's schedule? Saw it a couple hours ago and am still laughing. 2-10 is on the table...
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Official from B1G Website: Iowa vs NE will continue to annually be Black Friday, but others could move as well.

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference today announced the 2025 football schedule. The 2025 schedule marks the second season with 18 teams, no divisional format and the use of the Flex Protect XVIII model.



The model features a combination of protected opponents and rotating opponents for universities. Each member institution will continue to play nine intraconference games per season, and teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – once home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.



The 2025 season will conclude with the annual Big Ten Football Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium, which will feature the top two teams in the overall conference standings at the end of the regular season, with the winner earning the Big Ten Championship.



Selected Saturday games in the 2025 season may be adjusted to select Fridays and other special dates, including Labor Day Sunday and Black Friday. The 2026 football schedule will be announced in the future.
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With Oregon-Washington & USC-UCLA the final week of the season, I would think at least one will be a Prime Time game for NBC either Black Friday or Saturday. Maybe they get both, but CBS might want one of them too.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
there is a pretty elaborate structure that determines which networks get first choice of games in a given weekend.

this is from an article on Awful Announcing. it parallels the discussion I heard on the podcast (The Varsity with John Ourand on Puck)

From a sports media perspective, one of the biggest stories of the 2024 college football season has been Big Ten fans being frustrated with Fox’s handling of the conference’s rights.

And as it turns out, they aren’t the only ones tired of seeing the Big Ten’s biggest games predominantly played at noon.

While the windows for the Big Ten’s three media rights partners have been well established — Fox at noon, CBS at 3:30 p.m. ET and NBC at primetime — NBC reportedly wasn’t aware of the hurdles it would face regarding the league’s night games. Specifically, Ohio State and Michigan both have clauses allowing them to veto night games following the first week of November, with the Wolverines only obligated to play two primetime games per season.

Similar clauses for other Big Ten schools also exist, limiting NBC’s potential offerings throughout the season.

Writes Ben Strauss:


What’s more, despite NBC being a media rights partner since the 2023 season, its deal with the league has yet to be officially signed—something that isn’t necessarily uncommon in the sports rights space but can create additional “haggling,” per Strauss.

Ultimately, the lopsided nature of the Big Ten’s media rights package was always going to favor Fox, which owns the rights to the conference’s football games and subleases them to CBS and NBC. Laying claim to the first three picks in the conference’s annual schedule draft, Fox was/is always going to have the inside track to the conference’s biggest games, regardless of how many Big Ten — and specifically, Ohio State — fans are tired of the Big Noon experience.
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Yes I know. None of that disgreees with the fact that nbc’s lineup wasn’t weak because people shifted night games to day games

It was because too many weeks only had 1-2 good games and nbc gets 2nd or 3rd pick
 

Some guy said:
Yes I know. None of that disgreees with the fact that nbc’s lineup wasn’t weak because people shifted night games to day games

It was because too many weeks only had 1-2 good games and nbc gets 2nd or 3rd pick
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Plus extra bye weeks in 2024 and 2025
 



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